how to convert arraybuffer to string

Question

I have written a simple TCP server on node.js to send some data to a Chrome app. In the chrome app, when I get the data, I convert that to string using below function, I get

Answer 1

Kind of old and late, but perhaps using this function (original source) works better (it worked for me for decoding arraybuffer to string without leaving some special chars as total garbage):

function decodeUtf8(arrayBuffer) {
  var result = "";
  var i = 0;
  var c = 0;
  var c1 = 0;
  var c2 = 0;

  var data = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);

  // If we have a BOM skip it
  if (data.length >= 3 && data[0] === 0xef && data[1] === 0xbb && data[2] === 0xbf) {
    i = 3;
  }

  while (i < data.length) {
    c = data[i];

    if (c < 128) {
      result += String.fromCharCode(c);
      i++;
    } else if (c > 191 && c < 224) {
      if( i+1 >= data.length ) {
        throw "UTF-8 Decode failed. Two byte character was truncated.";
      }
      c2 = data[i+1];
      result += String.fromCharCode( ((c&31)<<6) | (c2&63) );
      i += 2;
    } else {
      if (i+2 >= data.length) {
        throw "UTF-8 Decode failed. Multi byte character was truncated.";
      }
      c2 = data[i+1];
      c3 = data[i+2];
      result += String.fromCharCode( ((c&15)<<12) | ((c2&63)<<6) | (c3&63) );
      i += 3;
    }
  }
  return result;
}